Neal Stephenson’s masterpiece, In the Beginning was the Command Line, is available online these days.
31 January 2018: updated URL
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Conrad Taylor wonders what WYSIWYG typesetting has done to the typesetter’s art — and the answer’s not pretty. From 1996, but as true today as it was then.
07 February 2018: updated URL
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Conrad Taylor wonder what WYSIWYG typesetting has done to the typesetter’s art — and the answer’s not pretty. From 1996, but as true today as it was then.
07 February 2018: updated URL
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As everyone knows, LaTeX is the absolute best text formatting system ever created, ever. Well, Getting Started with TeX on Mac OS X tries to ease one into the strange universe of text markup. As I’ve mentioned, LaTeX is where it’s at.
04 February 2018: updated URL
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As everyone knows, LaTeX is the absolute best text formatting system ever created, ever. Well, Getting Started with TeX on Mac OS X tries to ease one into the strange universe of text markup. As I’ve mentioned, LaTeX is where it’s at.
04 February 2018: updated URL
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All I can say about TeX is this:
Knuth says that TeX is for producing beautiful documents, and he went to great lengths to build in a lot of typographic know-how. The hyphenation algorithm alone was the subject of a PhD thesis.
I credit LaTeX for my excellent grades as a senior in college. My writing hadn’t improved that much — ’twas all the text formatting. Great beautiful margin, footnotes like God meant them to be, mathematical equations Euler would kill for: LaTeX is where it’s at.
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All I can say about TeX is this:
Knuth says that TeX is for producing beautiful documents, and he went to great lengths to build in a lot of typographic know-how. The hyphenation algorithm alone was the subject of a PhD thesis.
I credit LaTeX for my excellent grades as a senior in college. My writing hadn’t improved that much — ’twas all the text formatting. Great beautiful margin, footnotes like God meant them to be, mathematical equations Euler would kill for: LaTeX is where it’s at.
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DigiBarn claims that a working hypertext implementation was available in 1912. I rather think that they are pulling one’s leg, but OTOH I have read of 1930s-era fax machines, so who knows?
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DigiBarn claims that a working hypertext implementation was available in 1912. I rather think that they are pulling one’s leg, but OTOH I have read of 1930s-era fax machines, so who knows?
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In 1996, at CU Boulder, Roger Ebert devised the Boulder Pledge:
Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.
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In 1996, at CU Boulder, Roger Ebert devised the Boulder Pledge:
Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.
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Seen recently on Slashdot:
Phase 1 Uncritical Acceptance Phase 2 Wild Enthusiasm Phase 3 Dejected Disillusionment Phase 4 Total Confusion Phase 5 Search for the Guilty Phase 6 Punishment of the Innocent Phase 7 Promotion of Nonparticipants Apparently it dates back to the ’70s. It’s true, too.
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